Speaking of bunkers (see previous post), our sources tell us it's go time on Iran. This war with the entire Muslim world is gonna be boss! Let's ramp up! What's the cool operational name gonna be? Enduring Bedlam? Persian Carpet Bomb? Operation End of Irany?
George Packer, the New Yorker writer whose excoriating-yet-sobering book The Assassin's Gate became source material for the (thus far) definitive, excoriating-yet-sober documentary No End in Sight, writes on his blog Interesting Times:
"If there were a threat level on the possibility of war with Iran, it might have just gone up to orange. Barnett Rubin, the highly respected Afghanistan expert at New York University, has written an account of a conversation with a friend who has connections to someone at a neoconservative institution in Washington.
"They [the source’s institution] have 'instructions' (yes, that was the word used) from the Office of the Vice-President to roll out a campaign for war with Iran in the week after Labor Day; it will be coordinated with the American Enterprise Institute, the Wall Street Journal, the Weekly Standard, Commentary, Fox, and the usual suspects. It will be heavy sustained assault on the airwaves, designed to knock public sentiment into a position from which a war can be maintained. Evidently they don’t think they’ll ever get majority support for this—they want something like 35-40 percent support, which in their book is 'plenty'."
Oh Cheney, you adorable scamp, you! Running amok like Dennis the Menace through what's left of America's decaying, Mr. Wilsonian garden. Did everyone see Charles Mee's superb Iphigenia 2.0 yet? Our awesome new game plan recalls that chilling moment toward the end of the show, where Clytemnestra, begging Agamemnon to spare their daughter's life, suggests that the warmongers awaiting his sacrifice might be cool with just forgetting the whole thing and heading back to the Peloponnese. After a pocket of silence that could devour an Empire, Tom Nelis as Agamemnon gravely informs her that "there is a group determined to continue."
Hasn't war always worked "splendidly" for that small little group? Why wouldn't an apocalyptic conflagration be even MORE splendid? KBR's gonna make a killing! Now that The Surge put the Iraq insurgency out of their last throes, I think it's high time we moved on to bigger and better evildoers. Sign me up!... Oh no, not for the Army, thanks — a Weekly Standard subscription!
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